obligatory overdue update
Wow, so that was three weeks.
I can't remember if this got mentioned already or not, but our three-week rehearsal period was cut a little short when we left St. John's on Wednesday for a quick jaunt to a place called Churchill Falls, Labrador.
Let me tell you a little about Churchill Falls, population 700. It's only existed since the early 70's, when a massive underground power plant was built there. Virtually everything in the town belongs to the hydro-power corporation that runs the plant, and virtually everyone in the town works there. It is the very definition of a Company town. One school. One hotel. One pub. No streetlights. No cabs (which made getting from the airport to that one hotel kind of a challenge). And one very appreciative graduating class of about 30 making up the first audience of this tour.
Thursday night, after the show, we got a free guided tour of the power plant, which is about 91 stories underground, cut into solid granite. I tried to remember all the details of just how massively big everything in the place was, but after a while all the stats about millions of litres per minute and thousands of megawatts a day and hundreds of tons per what-have-you, started to run together. In layperson's terms: It's really big, and it's really far underground. There's something to do with water, and it makes a big pile of electricity, most of which goes to Québec.
So that was Thursday. Friday we flew back to St. John's, where we spent this weekend making sure everything's ready for when we hit the road. Tomorrow we blow the minds of a few hundred St. John's area teens, and the day after that, we set sail for parts unknown. Well, unknown by me. I rarely pay attention to our travel schedule. I like to be surprised. Hey, is Carbonear a real place? That sounds made-up to me.
Hey, i should really get to bed. We have an early morning (which, by my standards, is any morning that starts, well, before the afternoon), and we've been told that the media and/or the Money People will probably be in attendance for at least one of tomorrow's two shows.
So, here we go.
I'll see you on the road.
On the left: a row of eleven 50' transformers, each weighing about 250 tonnes. On the right:a wall of solid, 3 billion-year-old granite.
Yeah. Human hands built this place.
I can't remember if this got mentioned already or not, but our three-week rehearsal period was cut a little short when we left St. John's on Wednesday for a quick jaunt to a place called Churchill Falls, Labrador.
Let me tell you a little about Churchill Falls, population 700. It's only existed since the early 70's, when a massive underground power plant was built there. Virtually everything in the town belongs to the hydro-power corporation that runs the plant, and virtually everyone in the town works there. It is the very definition of a Company town. One school. One hotel. One pub. No streetlights. No cabs (which made getting from the airport to that one hotel kind of a challenge). And one very appreciative graduating class of about 30 making up the first audience of this tour.
Thursday night, after the show, we got a free guided tour of the power plant, which is about 91 stories underground, cut into solid granite. I tried to remember all the details of just how massively big everything in the place was, but after a while all the stats about millions of litres per minute and thousands of megawatts a day and hundreds of tons per what-have-you, started to run together. In layperson's terms: It's really big, and it's really far underground. There's something to do with water, and it makes a big pile of electricity, most of which goes to Québec.
So that was Thursday. Friday we flew back to St. John's, where we spent this weekend making sure everything's ready for when we hit the road. Tomorrow we blow the minds of a few hundred St. John's area teens, and the day after that, we set sail for parts unknown. Well, unknown by me. I rarely pay attention to our travel schedule. I like to be surprised. Hey, is Carbonear a real place? That sounds made-up to me.
Hey, i should really get to bed. We have an early morning (which, by my standards, is any morning that starts, well, before the afternoon), and we've been told that the media and/or the Money People will probably be in attendance for at least one of tomorrow's two shows.
So, here we go.
I'll see you on the road.
On the left: a row of eleven 50' transformers, each weighing about 250 tonnes. On the right:a wall of solid, 3 billion-year-old granite.
Yeah. Human hands built this place.
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